Part 1: Choose a leader from the following list. Complete the research worksheet. Then you will complete a research paper with the information you gathered.
Choice of leaders:
- John F. Kennedy: former president and supporter of the Civil Rights Movement
- Martin Luther King Jr.: preacher and leader of the Civil Rights Movement, believed in peaceful protests
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand: royal leader of various countries
- Gandhi: leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, believed in peaceful protests
- John Lennon: musician and activist
- Robert Kennedy: politician and United States junior senator from New York, supporter of the Civil Rights Movement
- Malcolm X: an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
- Harvey Milk: an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office and human rights activist
- Montezuma: ruler of the Aztecs
- Julius Ceaser: a Roman politician, general, and author
- William McKinley: former president
- Medgar Evers: Civil Rights Activists, his death inspired the movie The Ghost of Mississippi
- Benazir Bhutto: first and only woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Pakistan Prime Minister
Part 2: Choose one of the following ways to present your information
- Prezi:https://prezi.com/login/
Username/email: caitlinnichols@walkerschools.org
Password: RMSbulldogs1617 Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
- Poster Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
How?
Why did the world care?
- Essay Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
Who?
What?
When?
Where?
How?
Why did the world care?
ONCE YOU ARE FINISHED:
1 ) Watch biography videos on your leader on any of the suggested websites or on http://www.brainpop.com//.
Assassinated Leaders Research Project
Part 1: Choose a leader from the following list. Complete the research worksheet. Then you will complete a research paper with the information you gathered.
Choice of leaders:
- John F. Kennedy: former president and supporter of the Civil Rights Movement
- Martin Luther King Jr.: preacher and leader of the Civil Rights Movement, believed in peaceful protests
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand: royal leader of various countries
- Gandhi: leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India, believed in peaceful protests
- John Lennon: musician and activist
- Robert Kennedy: politician and United States junior senator from New York, supporter of the Civil Rights Movement
- Malcolm X: an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
- Harvey Milk: an American politician who became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office and human rights activist
- Montezuma: ruler of the Aztecs
- Julius Ceaser: a Roman politician, general, and author
- William McKinley: former president
- Medgar Evers: Civil Rights Activists, his death inspired the movie The Ghost of Mississippi
- Benazir Bhutto: first and only woman elected to lead a Muslim state, Pakistan Prime Minister
Suggested websites:
history.combiography.com
cnn.com
bbc.com
time.com
life.com
Research worksheet:
Assassinated Leaders Project.docx
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Part 2: Choose one of the following ways to present your information
- Prezi: https://prezi.com/login/
Username/email: caitlinnichols@walkerschools.org
Password: RMSbulldogs1617
Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
- Trading Card: You will need to create a trading card for the assassinated leader AND the assassin. You will need to get a quote for this type of presentation from each person as well. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/trading-card-creator-30056.html
- Poster
Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
- Essay
Directions: Include the information from your research in your presentation. Also be sure to answer the following summary questions about the assassin and assassinated leader
ONCE YOU ARE FINISHED:
1 ) Watch biography videos on your leader on any of the suggested websites or on http://www.brainpop.com//.
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